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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-21

CHIcKERING & Sons pianos are the best.
Full solid iron frame and patent repeating
action. L. X. Hammer, sole agent, No. $50
] street.
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Ell DORADO
County Farms
FOR SALE!

NOW THAT THE RAILROAD IS GOING TO
BE COMPLETED TO PLACERV1LLE, YOU
SHOULD PURCHASE FARM IN
FL DORADO BEFORE THE PRICES AID
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DwELLING-HoUsEs. FROM $50 UPWARD

tOOO EACH-FOR TWO FINE HIGH LOTS,
0OCU each 4oxi6o, on street between Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth.
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SEE our 95-cent corset for 20 cents to-day.
White napkins (doiliesl, for % cents per
dozen, at our last days sale, at the Red
House.
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Auction Sales.
Buslness Advertisements.

By Bell & Co-This evening.
By w. Fl. Sherburn-BiOnday and Tuesday.
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No Piano but the Mathushek" has the
tuning pins pushed into a solid iron frame.
Silver Medal at Mechanics Fair,
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yTTANTED-CoTTAGEs, CONVENIENT TO
w business Streets renting from SO to $50.
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E,RUIT AND GRAIN FARMS, IN ALL POR-
IL tons of Central California, in tracts to suit,
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ATTENTION is called to the Referees sale
of the celebrated Bartlett's Springs prop
erty, on June I'd, at Lakeport. The waters
of that spring are said to possess the most
wonderful curative powers of any spring
in America.
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FOR SALE-WANTED.

ID ESTAURANT FOR SALE-DOING A FINE
N business, that could be largely increased by
an experienced person. This is fine business
opportunity, and will be sold cheap on account
Of nl-health of owner
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DUILDING LOTS, IL ALL PORTIONS OF
d the city. Several on the installment plan
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iifth annual picnic of the Robert Emmet
Club will be held at Richmond Grove to-
morrow. The Hussar band will furnish
music for the occasion, and Con. Murphy,
the woll-knOwn violinist, will play for
those who engage in reel, jig and hornpipe
dancing on the platform specially pro-
vided for the purpose. The programme of
games includes races for boys, misses, mar
ried and single ladies' aud men of all ages
egg-race, three-legged race, throwing heavy
weight, running hop-skip- and-jump; three
standing jumps, RAINING high-jump and
long-jump. The prizes are unusually
worthy Of attention. Professionals are
barred from competing.
CREDIT SALE OF REAL EsrATE-Charles
R. Parsons, real estate auctioneer, will
sell to-day at l P. NJ, on the premises,
the handsome Queen Anne cottages. Nos.
1918 and 1920 @ street. just completed by
Siller Bros. They have five rooms each,
double paricrs, bay windows, gas. bath, hot
and cold water, inside blinds, large pantries
and closets, screens, ali latest conYenienceS
making two OF the most complete homes
in Sacramento. The terms of sale are
reason able, and place the dwellings within
the reach of any one. Only 5000 cash re-
ouired for first payment, balance in
atlas vs. HAvERLYs AGAIN.-There will
doubtless be an immense crowd at Agri-
cultural Park to morrow afternoon to wit
ness the baseball game between the Atlas
and Haverlys. The former will play the
same nine they won the victory with at
San Francisco last Sunday, Flint having
arranged his business affairs in such q
manner that he can remain with the club
during the season. The Haverlys rarely
make changes. but it may be relied upon
that they will have as strong nine as they
can bring, and every player of both clubs
will be on his mettle.
GUBERSAToRIAL APPOINTMENTS. = The
Governor has issued the following COM
missions: Notaries Public: Charles D.
Wheat, San Francisco; J. T. Noonan, Neu-
burg, Mono county: w. NJ. Hollenbeck
Pacific Grove; Albert NJ. Johnson, Sacra-
mento; G. NJ Dannals, San Diego; W. S.
Egan, Rio Dell, Humboldt county; w. H.
Pyburn. Salinas City. Also, A. w. Moffitt
Commissioner of Deeds for the District of
Columbia, TO reside at Washington. Also,
James X Johnson, Supervisor of the Sec
ond District, Del Norte county.
RETURNED FROM CHIco.-Company E,
Captain Stafford, with the First Artillery
Band and the other Sacramentans who
went on the excursion to Chico, returned
home about $50 A. NJ. yesterday, enthu-
siastic in heir description of the grand
good time they had enjoyed, and full of
praise OF the hospitality extended by the
Chico Guard and all the good people of
that handsome little city.
ARREsrs-The following arrests were
made yesterday John Weisheimer, by
officers Rider and Farrell, for assault to
murder: Thomas O'Brien, John Harrison
and Geo. Gallagher, by officers Mccormack
and Lowell and Deputy Sheriff Eldred, foc
burglary; Mollie, McCarty, by officer
Rider. for being drunk; Dan Daley, by
officer Mclaughlin, for being drunk.
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sherman e2s Parker,
Insurance & Real Estate Agents,
No. 1907 Fourth street, between ) and x,
SACRAM ENTO
MON T. TO LOAN.
In Small and Large Sums. 3p
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a. SEND FOR MAY CATALOGUE. q
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-29
TIVO NOTABLE WOMEN

Miss Dorothea Lynde Dix, n lady whose
life has been very largely devoted TO phil
anthropic cndeavor, died Of heart disease
at the Trenton, n. }. asylum, July ~, aged
80 years. She had been instrumental in
founding this asylum, and in recognition of
this fact the New Jersey authorities offered
her home there when she was taken i'll
while visiting Trenton five years ago. Miss
Dix was the daughter of Mr.. Joseph Dix, Il
Boston merchant, who died in 1921. After
her fathers death she supported herself by
teaching. Her attention being attracted
TO reports Of the neglected condition of the
convicts at the state prison in Charlestown,
she visited that institution and thencefor-
ward, until 1884, she worked assiduously
for the amelioration Of the condition of the
unfortunate and suffering classes, continu-
ing her school labors during the whole pc
riod. Her health becoming impaired and
her worldly prospects having been i'm
proved by a relatives bequest whereby she
was made independent she gave up her
school and visited Europe While there
she investigated the methods Of treatment
| for prisoners, paupers andthe insane. Re
turning to Boston in 1887, she continued
her investigations having as a counselor in
her work her friend and pastor, Rev vii
cial attention to the condition and needs of
the insane. Visiting every state in the
Union east of the Rocky Mountains, she
urged the attention Of legislatures and of
| prominent individuals TO the necessity Of
wise measures for the relief of the poor
and the wretched, and was largely inhuen-
tial in securing the foundation of some of the
state lunatic asylums now existing In 1S4S
and again in 1850 she petitioned Congress for
an appropriation Of public lands for the en-
dowment of hospitals for the INDECENT in
sane Her efforts resulted in the passage
Of a bill in April, 1854, whereby 10000,
| 900 acres of land were appropriated to the
several states for the relief Of the INDECENT
insane, but this bill was vetoed by President
| Pierce on the ground chiefly that the gener-
| al government had no constitutional power
to make such appropriations. During the
war Of the rebellion Miss Dix was supern-
tendent Of hospital nurses, having the en-
| tire control of their appointment and as
| sgnment 10 duty After the close of the
war she resumed her labor for the insane.
Miss Dix was the author of several works.
| She also wrote a number of tracts for the
prisoners and some reports on philanthrop-
ic subjects
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-29

So far as is known the first monument to
the memory of Gen, Grant has been com
menced ON Mount Mansfield, the highest
point in this state. Every person who goes
there adds a stone to it, and it is said that
it has already attained to considerable size.
In 1880 Domenico Call butcher in Cal
ahra, was sent to prison for murder. Hav-
ing killed four of his fellow prisoners, from
time to time his term had been renewed
without break until he had remained "A
prisoner ffty-seven years. About two
weeks ago he was released, in his SID year.
The speculative craze in California is il
lustrated by this statement in the San Fran
cisco Bulletin; "Ihe tract Of land where
$3.50 600 worth of town lots were sold last
Saturday-San Miguel, San Diego county
had simply been laid out ON paper, No
work had been done on the property. 1t
is still in greater demand, however, than
last week Yesterday another town sold
ON paper at San Diego. IL is called Bay
View, and the street was blocked by Il
frantic rush of women and men specula-
tors, who gobbled up the tract in an hour.
A novel bath was lately witnessed in Los
Angeles, Cal. A father had stationed his
whole family of children on the front lawn
in order, from the shortest 10 the tallest,
each of the youngsters clothed in big tow
el and when all was ready the hose was
turned on, while the youngsters danced
with delight. After 10 minutes brisk ap-
plication the herd was driven TO the rear of
the house, where they were dried and re-
dressed Yes said the paterfamilias,
that's the way to do it, and you see it
saves an immense amount of scrubbing."
A man near London recently made bet
that he could kill, clean, cook and eat a
spring chicken in fifteen minutes Pre-
paratory 10 the contest he secured the
chicken and provided himself with "A pot Of
boiling water, a bucket of cold water,
hot skillet and hot flat iron When time
was called he jerked the chickens head
off, doused it in a pot of boiling water,
slipped the feathers off, cleaned it, and then
laid the fry fiat in the pan, with the flat
iron on top 10 cook the upper side. At the
close of eleven and a half minutes he had
the chicken bones beautifully polished.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-29

The way to keep your credit good is new
er to use it. 1t is one of the few things in
this world that get brighter and more val
liable with disuse -BUGdtO Express.
A Harlem woman has become so accus-
toned to watering her flowers that she was
out with her watering-po in the rain re-
Gently, sheltered by an umbrella. Shoe aud
Leather Reporter
Frank Siddall, the Philadelphia soap man,
says II have confined my advertising
entirely to newspapers. The man who
does not read newspaper does not use
soap"
'It is said that strawberry" is the old
English "streow- -berie" or straying berry,
referring TO the straying habit of the run
ners of the plant. The Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette wants it called by its right
name of strayberry, We need not be in a
hurry about it, however since, as far as
this year is concerned, the strawberry has
strayed. baltimore american.
Two Scotch fishwives in London were
talking about the jubilee the other day
"Eh, wummun, - said one to the other, ''can
ye tell me what a jubilee is, for l hear a
the folk spakin' aboot it Z" "Ou, ay,' re-
piled the other, Il can tell ye that ye see
when a man and a wummun has been mar
rit for five-an' twenty year, that's siller
waddin', an when they've been marrit for
fifty year that's a gouden waddin', but
when the mans deed that's jubilee !"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-29

r, ~. !. - -.
Jennie collins, VINO dled at brookllne'
Mass, ot consumption wednesday evening
ol lasU week was Peppery Httle olacK-
eyeu woman VINO mas neeh known as an
earnest WORKER III good causes Tor - years
az boston Oplised 10 IaKe care OF herseii
ulIeT IeTT "a years al age she worKed IN mn
uh'l tne ton proved 700 severe lor her
SOrehsIh' one attempted nursing ana tal,
iIrins ,1 ana iiii.y nnaIy entered the employ 0i
,hrCuliaI imam, a rarker' Ihe Wen
Hno"h clouhlgTs' As young glTl III New
nun lllsllre, sH9 hau refused 10 ne one Oh
'I'e !ouiis iiialnens 10 receive Iahlel en-
Ster aV the state lair aiter ms 'th oi Marrl
SPeech' thqs carry leelhg deteStation ol
slnVery' DuIlng the war She was actlVt,
III WoIh IoI Vie comfort ol the soi.ilers aho
cohtrlputed eiheleht service III lalrs ano
otler enterprises OF iike nature Aitei
uhe war she Uook up the wrongs ot tht
WORKING women OF whch she had gained
quIte an insight. one appeared at th'
STATE mouse sometimes IN behaii OF leglsla
ulon LOT working people ana became
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-29

An ORIGINAL VERSION. There lived near
Alexandria, in Virginia, an old colored man
and woman, whom their acquaintance call
ed Daddy and Nanny Williams. He had
had educational advantages, and could read
in fashion peculiarly his own but his
wife, although lacking as regards erudition,
possessed great force of character, which
she often displayed in a manner that was
very irritating to her husband. When she
became partially fractions, Daddy would
take the Bible, and open to that chapter in
Revelation beginning, "And there appear
ed a great wonder in heaven, woman
clothed with the sun, and the moon under
her feet etc. With impressive solemnity
he would read as follows; "An' dere
'peared great wonder in heben, a wom-
an ~ Slowly closing the book he would
gaze sternly at his now subdued wife, for
the passage never failed to produce the de
sired effect, -Ha,per's Magazine for Aug
uSt
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CHATTER VG.-wE LOSE FORTY MILLION Dol

CHATTER VI.-wE LOSE FORTY MILLION DOL
LARS.
The trail to the valley where resided the
only other man of our complexion in this
region lay beneath the great red-walled
mesa, under high isolated shaft of rock
called the Chimney" and down steep
descent to "A narrow pass filled with acacia
shrubs, half the time in the bed of noisy
stream and at the base of vast perpendic-
uar cliffs, full of caves, which might have
been formerly the homes of the robbers
whose plumber Don Ceestino had offered to
show us. Two hours after leaving camp
we passed over a sharp spur of the hills and
plunged into a valley with green slopes and
a river cleavimg it in twain, which had left
strip of alluvia soil on one side where
the owner of this secluded spot had built II
house and rude reduction works. The pro
piietor was a Frenchman, who welcomed
us warmly, despite his amazement at the
sight of strangers and when he learned
that we wished 10 test the quality of ores
he ordered AN Indian to pulverize portion
carefully and then wash it in an earthen
dish. We gathered anXiously around, as
this process was going ON, and when the
stolid Indians verdict of "NOthing'-nO
hdy H1tti,t-was given, we demanded anoth-
er washing and still another, until four
successive trials had been made, with the
same discouraging result. But 10 convince
us finally, our good friend started the fires
in his furnace, and tested our "indn in the
crucible, with the same result-nddd!
The long strain over, we had time to ex-
anime our surroundings. We found our
host to he an ingenious man, for he had
utilized the wind generated by the rushing
of the water over the dam to work the fur
mace bellows and enterprising for he had
lost all his works by fire, six months be-
fore, and had constructed new ones.
At dinner, which was finely cooked and
served, he told us something Of his life,
lie had come to Mexico with the French
army, had become separated, somehow
from his comrades, when they returned
and had lived in this place eighteen years,
hemmed in from the society of his kind by
those memorable hills. 1t was then ten
years since he had visited the only city in
the state, and we were the only strangers
who had reached him, save the curd, who
had been there once. He had, he laughing
ly told us, improved upon poor Robinson
Crusoe, by taking TO his bosom a fair Indian
maid, when he come here, by whom he had
several chidren-graceful tan-colored
youngsters, who sported in the stream, and
shyly approached us only as we-the first
strangers they had ever seen-were ready
to depart, We were charmed with the
old mans simplicity and the mineralogist
especially, who was of French extraction
or rather, of mingled Gallic and Celtic
blOOd-was so delighted that he seriously
proposed TO us TO abandon the world, in
duce the hermit TO share with us his charm
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-29

Fossil FooD. After all, says the Nine
teenth Century, this reduction of prehis
toric bones and ivory to vulgar powders for
medicinal use is not more strange than the
fossil food which forms SO large part of
the daily bread of multitudes of our fellow
creatures in Lapland, Finland and Sweden,
in Carolina and Florida, on the banks of
the Orinoco and of the Amazon, where vast
tracts of earth are found composed wholly
of myriads of microscopic shells, and this
strange mountain meal, being duly mixed
with meal of the nineteenth century, is
freely eaten by the people. In Lapland
alone hundreds of wagon loads are annu-
ally dug from one great field and there are
men who eat as much as a pound and half
per diem of this curious condiment. We
hear of fields, as yet untouched, having
been discovered in Bohemia, Hungary, and
other parts of Europe, so perhaps, we may
ere long add these primeval atoms to the
delicacies of our own tables.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-29
oBIuebeardp with we-tern Variation.

"BiueDenrd" win western variations.
Old Bud jackson, one of the terrors of
Montana, lost his fourth wife, and came
over into Dakota for fifth victim He
met and married the widow Baggs, a frail,
gentle looking little woman, who had Just
been left a widow for the third time and
seemed crushed to earth by her losses
Mr.. and Mrs. jackson wended their way
TO Buds Montana home, and as the gushing
bridegroom led his bride into his lovely cot
of one room, and introduced her TO his fa-
vorite dogs he said tenderly; "You want
to remember, Mrs, jackson, that Pm the
boss here. Don't you never ferget that
The four dear companions that I've laid
away mighty soon found that out. All |
ever had to do was to crook my finger and
they come a-runnin' to know what l want
ed. There want no hangin' back nor ask
in questions You see that OK gad up
there Well, that's the little ARBITRATOR
that useter settle any slight differences
ever had with the four dear companions
that are gone. They ginerally sukkumed
after bout six licks, and | hope you'll be
equally obeejent. Now, s'posen you take
my boots an clean EN- up an grease EN-
They've got mighty muddy while we was
ON our tower Clean 'em up good. I'm
mighty pertickler bout my boots, and I'd
hate to take that air gad down the fust day
you was in your new home. Come an pull
off the boots" The frail, sad-eyed little
bride did not move. Her pretty lips began
TO tremble and her gentle bosom heaved.
"You comm % roared jackson. "Hev
got 70 snatch down that air gad Oh, yer
comm, eh y She came. She snatched
down the gad ON her way, and with set
teeth and eyes that twinkled merrily she
landed within two feet of Bud He had
faced wild cats and hyenas, but never any
thing like this A conflict ensued it was
short, fierce, and decisive, 1t ended in
Bud crawling under the he'd, and as his
bride prodded him with hoe handle she
gayly shouted aye pore innercent thing,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-29
TOOthpicks by the Ton,

"Where do all the toothpicks come fromi''
inquired New York Mail and Express re
porter of dealer in those articles the 9TH
er morning.
From Maine, chiefly Billions are turn
ed out in the little town of Franklin alone
every year.
"a Yankee invention, isn't it p
Not exactly, but it owes its growth to
Yankee shrewdness. Charles Forster of
Franklin is the leading toothpick manufac-
turer in the world. Before the war he
was in South America, where he saw ma
tive whiting out a few toothpicks with
his knife. He bought a few of these and
sent them to his wife as a curiosity. BY
some means Paran Stevens of the Fifth Av-
enue hotel got hold of some of them and
sent to Mr.. Forster for box. They were
forwarded to him. In less than a month
he had ordered gross, and soon many of
the leading hotels in the country were us
ing South American toothpicks. Before
this there was hardly any demand in the
country for toothpicks. 1t wasn't many
months before the South American tooth
pick began To get national reputation.
Mr. Forster emigrated to this country and
established a toothpick agency here. The
South Americans began to raise on the price
of their whittlings, and the picks grew
worse and worse. In the first years of the
business some of them got rich whiting
toothpicks."
"Why didn't Mr.. Forster make them in
this country instead of sending so far away
for them ~
''That is just what he did about % years
ago. He made his first toothpick by ma
chinery. The first year he sold 65 cases,
$50, 900 picks in a case. His last years
business amounted to 30, 1000 cases-quite a
respectable increase. When Mr.. Forster
began the business in this country he hired
a fellow 10 turn crank, and the fellow
used TO grind out toothpicks one at time.
Finally he bought an engine of 1-horse
power and substituted it for Young Amer
lea. At his factory in Dixiield a few year.
ago he worked an engine of 40-horse pow
er. Mr.. Forster's machinery is all patent
ed by himself He probably has spent $50,
600 on his patent in litigations since he
started toothpick making"
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shortening the BABY.

Our baby now is four months old,
A bonnie boy, with hair like gold;
And his long clothes ara put away
For mother shortened HIM to-day.
He has the lovelest OF frocks,
All trimmed with lace, and two pink socks
That father bought, the best by far
And prettiest in the whole baZ,lr.
And now the rogue can kick about;
His little feet 20 In and ont
As though they could not rest, and he
Is just as happy as can be.
Besides, he feels quite proud to-day
With all his long clothes put away,
And dressed so fine! And then, you know,
We praise the boy, and love hun so!
His grandmamma must see him soOni
We all will go this afternoon,
Aud take the pet and stay for tea
And what riot there will be-
At first perhaps, she may not know
The baby, he has dwindled so;
But let her guess, and do not say
That mother shortened him to-day,
-StNiohoidS
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-29

and Clipped off pieces Of the rock, | sat on
an outcropping ledge in the shade and look
ed over the valleys and hills, and the dis
tant mountains Of Vera Cruz, and thought
upon the past Of the gold that the com
rades of Cortes undoubtedly obtained in
this region, and Of the buen RETRO that the
great captain ordered TO be constructed
here, with its pleasure house, its artificial
ponds stocked with fish, and its gardens Of
cacao trees.
As the red sun dropped down upon the
falling directly upon the Tabasco region
the home Of Malmche, Indian princess and
mistress of CortGs, the miners emerged
from their cavern with sacks full Of speci-
mems, and we slowly walked down to the
hut and the horses